Connecticut western news., 1887-10-19
NEWS IN SHORT ORDER.
DOMESTIC HAPPENINGS TOLD IN A FEW BRIEF WORDS.
Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns.

Interesting Paragraphs Condensed from Many Redundant Columns. Wong Chin Foo paid $50 duty on himself as Chinaman on entering Canada, at Clifton. He protested on the ground of his American citizenship.
 A Republican syndicate has purchased the New York Graphic an illustrated organ for the party.
 A colored boy fell from the front platform of horse car near West Brighton, Staten Island. One of the forward wheels passed over his neck and his head was completely severed from his body. It was found half way - between the rails. There were several ladies in the car and one of them tainted. The car was thrown from the track. It is not known who the boy was.
 The slate and iron roof of the retort house of the Manhattan gas wo ks fell upon twenty five workmen, injuring five of them. Corrod- ing iron caused the accident.
 The settlers of the Texas Pan Handle are aGitated over Q recent order from the manager of the Rocking Chair Ranch Company calling upon them to leave their homes, which the company say arc in their domain, along the border of Wheeler and Collinsworth counties. MT. Baxter, of the N. |. Athletic Club, has covered himself with glory by yaulting with pole over bar II feet 5 inches from the ground, beating the best English record half an inch.
 The sSAnti-poversy' fair closed in New York. The profits which will be used in aid ing the State canvass of the United Labor Par ty, amount to about SIS, 900.
 The review of the real estate market shows that notwithstanding the absence of all wild speculation over S1, ,70O,0oO worth of property changed hands at public and private sale during the past week, within the city limits.
 Hamilton Grange, New York city, ono, the home of Alexander Hamilton, Is to be sold at auction on the 18th inst.
 Louis Kallenbach, 15 years old, was walk ing on the trestlework of the Rapid Transit Railroad at Stapleton, Staten Island, N. l., when he saw train approaching. h endeav- bring to get out of the way his leg was eau ,ht and held so that he could not move. In his frantic endeavors to free the limb he fractured 1t badly. The train was stopped just before reaching him.
 Park Commissioner Crimmins gives some interesting information about street paving in foreign cities, and tells about the botch- work of irresponsible contractors in New York.
 Tt seems probable that tho Rev. Chs rles A. Berry, of England, will be the successor of Henry Ward Beecher at Plymouth Church.
 A peculiar accident occurred at Indian spolis, Ind. Louis Frendlanding, Bee Line coal heave~, was loading freight car and fell
 
 of the switch, which penetrated his body be- low the right shoulder blade, he being inn paled there for fully fifteen minutes before Icing relieved. The man was not dead, but his recovery is impossible.
 "A bartender of the Cafe Riche, on Twenty ninth street, is in trouble for violating the Excise law. Judge Duffy will force the clos ing of the place if possible.
 Father McTiShe, of Pittsburg, who was elected principal of one of tue public schools, bas resigned.
 All vessels leaving New York for Mexican ports are given foul bills of health stating that cholera exists there.
 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rail- road Company has commenced running through trains between Kansas City and Denver.
 An oil lamp exploded in Pullman sleeper on the Missouri Pacific Railroad near Austin, Tex. The passengers escaped, but the car was nearly destroyed.
 The Chicago city council has revoked the franchise of the Equitable gas company. The resolution repeating the franchise of the Con- srlmers company will be acted on soon.
 Father Jean, who has brought suit against Bishop Hennessy of Dubuque for wrongfully deposing him from St. Irenaeus Church, at Lyons, Ia-, is pleading his own cause in court. William Barnes, aged 20, has been founl mu' dcred by unknown perso.is on the road DaN Emaus, Pa. He had been driving with some young ladies and started to walk home at midnight. He was never seen alive again. Preparations for hanging the seven An begun. Carpenters are quietly at work build ing the scaffold. The ropes have been pur- chased and tested and the suits and black caps ordered
 The upsetting of a kerosene lamp caused fire at house in Chicago, in which Richard Moore, aged 50, an agent of drug house. was suffocated, and his wife was roasted to death Several persons were rescued from the win- dows by firemen.
 Fred Fisher, a Chicago teamster, hung himself with a handkerchief in the rear of his lTother's residence He was cut down and he said he had hnng himself to take the place of one of the Anarchists.
 Two hundred gues:s ssa fhe banquet rendered to Cardinal Taschereau at Toronto Among them were high Catholic prelates, in- huential members of both the Catholic and Protestant laity, Senators and members of the local and Dominion Governments.
 The Mormon conference adjourned after a four days session. No President of the Church was chosen. Milford Woodruff was sustained as the President of the Twelve Apos- ties and ex-ofiicio of the Church, George Q. Cannon, Joseph F. Smith, and the rest, ill- cluding Woodruff, as apostles seers and reve- lators.
 The municipal authorities of Louisville, Ky, are about to secure indictments against uic president ana directors of tho Louisville gas company for buying the election of cer- tain State legislators with the idea of secur- ing the exclusive right to sell gas in Louis vile. It Is charged that the gas company cx- pended SIS, 900 to elect friendly legislators.
 Col. Clefford W. Anderson, of Savannah, walked into Postmaster C.. W. Lnmar's office and challenged him to fight at ten paces. Hot words followed, and Col. Anderson denounc- ing Major Lamar in vigorous language, the postmaster sprang up and struck him. Col. Anderson drew pistol, but before he could use 1t he had been badly beaten by the post master. Anderson was finally rescued by the clerks.
 "A man named Edwarly, in the employ of the Mexican Central Railroad as an advertis- ing agent, and claiming to be correspondent of a St. Louis newspaper, attempted to shoot the proprietor of the Congreso Americana saloon in the City of Mexico. Edwardy was armed with carbine and pistol and rode a horse, which, when he fired into the saloon, threw him. and he was captured. His shot missed aim and no harm was done. Edwartly appears to have become suddenly insane,
 Mrs. Phoebe A. Whitlock has commenced suit az inst the whole Mormon Church and the successors and assignecs of the late Brig ham Young for the possession of three lots in Omaha Her petition alleges the existence of ce tain deed, executed in April, 1856, wherein the Florence Land Company conveyed the lots to Brigham Young, as trustee of the Mormon Church. She claims that the deed has long since ceased to have any force or effect as against her, and prays that the church and Brigham foung's heirs be forever debarretl from asserting any claim on the property
 DAUVRAY AND WARD.